Front of School Notice

A polite reminder that children should be supervised at the entrance to school in the mornings and at pick up. Children must not, at any time, walk on the flower beds, pull branches off bushes or cause any damage.

Sadly, we have received reports of damage to the bushes and plants by children.

Thank you for supporting the school to ensure our grounds remain respected and well cared for.

Annual Hordle Spring clean and tidy up - 15th March 2025

As school budgets continue to be extremely tight, we look to our wonderful school community to assist where possible. We would like to invite parents back to the school for our Annual Spring Clean on Saturday 15th March between 10am - 1pm. 

This event has been hugely successful in the past, with the school sparkling after just a few hours of labour from willing volunteers! Jobs that we need help with include washing down walls, tables and chairs and generally making the school sparkle.
We will be hugely grateful if you could spare some time to help that day. We will provide all the tools and supplies and will even have Miss Trim on hand to make our wonderful volunteers bacon sandwiches, tea and coffee and home baked cakes!

Please note that for Health & Safety reasons we are unable to have any children on site during this Spring clean. 

Please let us know if you can come and help by completing this form.

Thank you for helping us love our school.

Team Ash Cake Sale

We are delighted to share that Team Ash raised a fabulous £128.45 from their cake sale last Friday, all in aid of The Silver Line!

A great start to our class charity fundraising for this academic year. Well done, team.  

Foundation Stage Learning Reviews and Drop Ins

Please make a note in your diaries for the upcoming FS Learning Reviews:

Details on how to book will be sent out after half term.

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There will also be the opportunity for Parent Drop In's for Team FS on Wednesday 26th March, from 3:30pm - 4:30pm. 

Activity Passport 

Today, all children will be coming home with their Activity Passports for this academic year. We hope that you will enjoy making a start on these over the half term break! 

For any misplaced passports, you can find replacements on our website here, or please pop in to the school office. 

World Book Day - Book Tokens

The World Book Day book tokens have now been distributed to classes and will be coming home with your child this evening. We are pleased to share that tokens can be redeemed at the following retailers:

Tesco, New Milton

Waterstones, Lymington

Sainsbury's, Christchurch

The Works, Chirstchurch

Bookends Book Shop and Art Centre, Christchurch

As a reminder, we will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 7th March. There is no set theme this year, children are invited to attend school dressed as their favourite character from any fictional or non fictional book or simply in their own clothes. More information can be found on the parent letter, sent on Friday 7th February, here.

Please remember that costumes do not need to be expensive and can be created at home using what you already have. Please find some 'dressing up' ideas/solutions from World Book Day here.

Hordle Hub Club Survey

Further to recent parent feedback, we would like to invite parents to share your views on the 'Going Live' time of Hordle Hub clubs.

Please can we ask parents/guardians to complete this short form to help us shape the organisation of Hordle Hub Clubs in the future. 

The deadline for this survey is Monday 24th February.

Thank you. 

'Spring in to action' Walk to School Week -   Monday 3rd March - Friday 7th March

After half term we will be taking part in 'Spring in to action'. This is an event running on the 3rd of March for a week. The theme of this years event is weather- allowing us to connect with nature and the world around us. There will be activity cards coming round to complete, containing all sorts of things to do. 

Once completed, please return all completed activity cards to the JRSO's or Mrs James. All returned cards will be entered into a random prize draw to win some of the 'My Journey' gifts! (Pens, keyrings, water bottles, etc.)

PATCH Save the Dates

Please add the following reminders in to your diaries for upcoming PATCH events over Spring term. 

Any relevant letters for each event can be found under the 'PATCH' heading, further down the newsletter. 

Should you have any questions, please email patchcontact@yahoo.com. 

We would like to remind parents/guardians of the term dates for the next couple of months. 

Friday 14th February - Last Day of Spring 1

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Monday 24th February - First Day of Spring 2

Friday 21st March - INSET Day

Friday 4th April - Last Day of Spring 2

Parents are strongly advised by the Government and Local Authority to avoid taking children out of school in term time because of the disruption it causes to their education.

Following the update to the Penalty Notice Framework, Miss Trim has kindly put together a helpful leaflet to outline the important changes and how the penalty notice system will work. The leaflet can be found here.